Thomas Linacre

Thomas Linacre (1460-20 October 1524) was an English humanist scholar and physician. Linacre College is named for him.

Biography
Thomas Linacre was born in Brampton, Derbyshire, England in 1460, and he received his early education at Canterbury Cathedral, later entering Oxford in 1480. In 1484, he became a fellow of All Souls College, and he travelled to Italy; in Bologna, he studied under Poliziano. Linare was one of the first Englishmen to study Greek in Italy, and he brought back to his country and university the lessons of "New Learning". His own pupils included Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, Arthur, Prince of Wales, and Queen Mary I of England. Linacre died in 1524 at the age of 64.